Problems with Converting and virtualdub

[Upper Level]

Whenever I'm converting my downloaded movie with TMPEG1 it takes forever. I had to stop because it was taking over 5 hours to only get 7%. Is there anything I'm doing wrong and anyway to speed it up?

Everytime I try use virtualdub it crashes or says I can't use it on whatever movie I'm trying to use it on. What do I do?

[tenders]

encodeing is a slow process. if you want to speed it up you need a faster cpu. not exactly sure what your talking about with virtual dub??

[ZeroKool]

The speed of encoding depends on the speed of your proccessor - it takes me 2-2.5 hours to encode a 100 min movie on my AMD Athlon 1900 MGhz, but i have not heard of anyone encoding for longer than 15 hours so the possible reasons are:

1)you are using VBR encoding where encoding process is divided in 2 parts - 1st analyzing and 2nd encoding so you might have looked at the process just after the analyzing when it was encoding (that means that the whole process would take about 10 hours which is normal on slower PCs)
2)your PC is VERY old and hasnt got enough processing power to do encoding
3)you need to defragment your HD to an acceptable level

Regarding Virtual Dub - the movies crash in Virtual Dub if they are bad downloads with a lot of errors and bad, unreadable frames - try downloading a better version. Hope this helps

[Upper Level]

The speed of encoding depends on the speed of your proccessor - it takes me 2-2.5 hours to encode a 100 min movie on my AMD Athlon 1900 MGhz, but i have not heard of anyone encoding for longer than 15 hours so the possible reasons are:

1)you are using VBR encoding where encoding process is divided in 2 parts - 1st analyzing and 2nd encoding so you might have looked at the process just after the analyzing when it was encoding (that means that the whole process would take about 10 hours which is normal on slower PCs)
2)your PC is VERY old and hasnt got enough processing power to do encoding
3)you need to defragment your HD to an acceptable level

Regarding Virtual Dub - the movies crash in Virtual Dub if they are bad downloads with a lot of errors and bad, unreadable frames - try downloading a better version. Hope this helps

Thanks for the help. I own a windows '98.
About the VBR encoding thing. It just seems like it would take twenty four hours or something. Anyway, I'll take what you said in mind.